Current Events and Campus Life
Admirers praise Harvard leader’s character, achievements
June 15, 2017
Members of the Harvard community and beyond reacted Thursday to Harvard President Drew Faust’s announcement that she will step down next year by recalling her decade of accomplishments, which they... Continue reading
Harvard study shows link between RNA misfires and ALS, dementia
June 14, 2017
Fixing glitches in the assembly of RNA may hold the key to treating ALS and frontal lobe dementia, according to a Harvard Medical School (HMS) study published this week in Cell Reports. Researchers... Continue reading
A decade of leadership
June 14, 2017
Since taking office in July 2007, Harvard President Drew Faust has spearheaded a sweeping expansion of financial aid, opening Harvard’s doors to many more qualified applicants, and has championed... Continue reading
Drew Faust to step down as Harvard president next June
June 14, 2017
Drew Faust, who became Harvard’s 28th president in 2007, announced today that she will step down on June 30, 2018. Faust, an acclaimed author and historian of the Civil War and the American... Continue reading
Platforms trump products as internet evolves, Harvard speaker says
June 13, 2017
Opening the University’s seventh annual Harvard IT Summit at Sanders Theatre, Harvard’s chief information officer, Anne Margulies, put forth the goals of the event: “We’re here to build our IT... Continue reading
Harvard scholars react to exit from Paris climate accord
June 13, 2017
Though other nations appear to be standing firm on their climate commitments, and U.S. states, cities, and business leaders have reaffirmed pledges to climate goals, action by the federal government... Continue reading
This efficient house aims to end up producing energy
June 13, 2017
An extensive renovation project has begun in a house on a side street adjacent to Harvard’s Cambridge campus, but this is no ordinary rehab. The stick-frame house, which predates the 1940s and... Continue reading
Harvard Business School, SEAS announce joint master’s program
June 13, 2017
Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have announced a new joint master’s degree program. The two-year, full-time program,... Continue reading
Harvard scientists use simple materials to create semi-soft robots
June 13, 2017
At the beginning of the decade, George Whitesides helped rewrite the rules of what a machine could be with the development of biologically inspired “soft robots.” Now he’s poised to rewrite them... Continue reading
New momentum for Harvard ideas in language, health, astronomy
June 12, 2017
Investigating how languages emerge and evolve. Using climate-change data to predict dust storms and bacterial meningitis outbreaks in Northern Africa. Understanding whether age-related diseases may... Continue reading